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Every guide, review, and ingredient breakdown is produced collectively — researchers, clinicians, and data engineers working from primary sources, against a public scoring rubric, with no brand-side conflicts.

Research & Analysis
Naked Compound Research Team

In-house researchers, clinicians, and data engineers who build and maintain Naked Compound's ingredient database, scoring engine, and long-form research library. Every piece is evidence-graded, India-contextualised, and produced against a public methodology — reviewed by more than one person before it goes live. No sponsored posts. No paid placements. No brand-side conflicts.

614
Products evaluated
312
Ingredients catalogued
84
Research guides published
38
Indian brands covered
Named contributors
Sumita Bhatti
Clinical Nutritionist · Vitamins & Minerals

Sumita brings 15+ years of clinical nutrition practice to Naked Compound's vitamins and minerals pipeline — including nearly nine years as Nutrition Manager at HealthifyMe, where she reviewed hundreds of supplement stacks across India's most diverse user base. Her work at Intellect and as a Clinical Dietitian informs her India-specific framing: she understands that D3 dosing for a Bengaluru software engineer is not the same problem as D3 dosing for a Stockholm office worker, and she writes accordingly.

At Naked Compound, Sumita focuses on the vitamins, minerals, and women's health review pipeline — categories where her clinical depth and food safety regulatory background (Indian Institute for Food Safety certificate; FSSAI-adjacent regulatory experience) make her the right person to write the FSSAI/Schedule K sections that most supplement reviewers skip entirely.

MPH — Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition · IGNOU BSc Dietetics · Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru Food Safety Certificate · IIFSA 15+ yrs clinical practice HealthifyMe — Nutrition Manager (2013–2022)
Vitamins & Minerals Women's Health Iron · Folate · B12 FSSAI Regulatory D3 · K2 · Magnesium
Contributor since May 2026
Pankaj Singh
Product Tester · Hands-on reviews

Pankaj tests products the way readers use them: he buys them with his own money and uses them day to day. His notes from that use go into reviews marked "Personally purchased & tested". Hands-on use is not a lab test, so scores still come from the public rubric and cited sources.

Hands-on testing Instant coffee
Contributor since Oct 2026
Coverage areas

The disciplines behind the database.

Specialists across eight domains — all contributing to a single, consistent standard.

Clinical pharmacology
Drug–supplement interactions · Contraindications
Sports nutrition
Ergogenics · Protein · Pre-workout · Creatine
Data & database
Ingredient schema · Scoring engine · Changelog
Sleep medicine
Melatonin · Magnesium · Circadian protocols
Women's health
Iron · Folate · PCOS supplementation
Analytical chemistry
Third-party lab protocols · Purity · Label honesty
Adaptogens & nootropics
Ashwagandha · Rhodiola · L-theanine
Vitamins & minerals
Indian deficiency context · Dosing · Serum response
Editorial policy

How authorship works on Naked Compound.

Named contributors write and own specific pieces. Reviews are produced with the help of AI tools and scored against our public rubric, so no single contributor's opinion sets a score.

Our methodology, scoring rubric, and conflicts-of-interest policy are public and versioned. Read the full methodology →